Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in ATutor 2.2 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) create an administrator account via a request to mods/_core/users/admins/create.php or (2) create a user account via a request to mods/_core/users/create_user.php.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-1583 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.1/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.23%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ | |
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-03-30 | 10.83% | 0.23% | -10.61% |
| 2 | 2025-03-29 | 0.23% | 10.83% | +10.61% |
| 3 | 2025-03-24 | — | 0.23% | — |
Full EPSS history (9 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
|
2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 6.8 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
8.6 | 6.4 | [email protected] |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130598/ATutor-LCMS-2.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html | Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72845 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
| https://edricteo.com/cve-2015-1583-atutor-lcms-csrf-vulnerability/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/068b8aa37f24645c62235018fb8da340f60e2d18 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/0ee827317e497f1db86ddc5080b8af461e4595ce | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/atutor/ATutor/commit/af519cfb56da7312eecbb5812484fcbce08e4419 | Patch Third Party Advisory |